From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.19]:55341 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754476Ab3B1Vut (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:50:49 -0500 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([10.1.76.29]) by mrigmx.server.lan (mrigmx001) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MHuVv-1U7cTK2Jqv-003Zvk for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:50:47 +0100 From: Sven Joachim Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs References: <1362045557-9123-1-git-send-email-jlec@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:50:45 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1362045557-9123-1-git-send-email-jlec@gentoo.org> (jlec@gentoo.org's message of "Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:59:17 +0100") Message-ID: <874ngwhzuy.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: jlec@gentoo.org Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2013-02-28 10:59 +0100, jlec@gentoo.org wrote: > Ncurses provides a config script (ncurses5-config) to assist finding ncurses. > This patch makes use of it to detect the necessary libs for linking of the > ncurses nconfig dialog. That script is not necessarily called ncurses5-config, it might also be called ncurses6-config is ncurses is configured for a different ABI (--enable-ext-colors, --enable-ext-mouse). Although I would suspect that any distribution who does that provides a compatibility symlink. > scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile > index 3091794..c372976 100644 > --- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile > +++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile > @@ -216,7 +216,9 @@ HOSTCFLAGS_gconf.o = `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gmodule-2.0 libglade-2.0` \ > > HOSTLOADLIBES_mconf = $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(check-lxdialog) -ldflags $(HOSTCC)) > > -HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf = -lmenu -lpanel -lncurses > +HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf = -lmenu -lpanel > +HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf += $(shell ncursesw5-config --libs 2>/dev/null \ > + || ncurses5-config --libs 2>/dev/null ) This will link with ncursesw, not ncurses. Probably not what you want, since nconf.h does not #include the right headers for that. On Debian/Ubuntu, there's also the problem that ncursesw5-config exists even if the libncursesw5-dev package is not installed, so this patch makes the build fail in such cases. Can we just call ncurses5-config and not ncursesw5-config, or are there any distros who ship the latter and not the former? Cheers, Sven